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Riot SITREP + Color Revolution Update

Riot SITREP + Color Revolution Update

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Jun 12, 2025
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Riot SITREP

Riots continued for the sixth consecutive night in Los Angeles, California, and have this week expanded to at least nine additional cities, with significant violence observed in:

  • Los Angeles, CA

    • Reports of over 400 arrests overnight during rioting and curfew enforcement

  • San Fransisco, CA

    • Arrests made for vandalism

  • Denver, CO

    • Groups blocked roads, hurled rocks and bottles near Coors Field

  • Atlanta, GA

    • Six arrests made during violent demonstrations, which included using fireworks and hurling rocks at police following curfew

  • Chicago, IL

    • Violent demonstrations against Chicago Police HQ; protesters vandalized property, threw rocks and disrupted transit

  • New York City, NY

    • Police made dozens of arrests; protests turned disorderly into late night

  • Philadelphia, PA

    • 15 arrests including one for aggravated assault on police

  • Dallas, TX

    • Crowd on a city bridge declared unlawful; objects thrown, pepper spray deployed

  • Austin, TX

    • Hundreds protested at State Capitol and federal building; objects thrown, tear gas and pepper spray deployed by law enforcement

  • Seattle, WA

    • Dozens clashed with police near federal buildings, rioters used fireworks and threw rocks

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Additional Developments:

  • The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to deploy ICE Special Response Teams to five additional cities: Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Seattle, and the Northern Virginia area. Each of these areas have very deep Far Left networks.

  • Texas Governor Abbott ordered members of the Texas National Guard to San Antonio in anticipation of protests this week. The National Guard will remain on standby until they are needed. Per the statement, “Texas will not tolerate the lawlessness we have seen in Los Angeles.”

  • 18 Blue State Coalition Attorneys General issued a joint statement condemning the Trump administration for deploying the California National Guard and active duty troops to Los Angeles, CA.

  • 19 states including Texas, and the U.S. territory of Guam filed a brief with the federal courts supporting the Trump administration’s Los Angeles troop deployment.

  • California Governor Gavin Newsom rejected Florida’s offer to send State Guard personnel to assist with the protests. (Most state guards are unarmed, however, Florida has a State Guard special operations unit that is heavily manned by law enforcement officers.)

  • AG Pam Bondi said the Trump administration will invoke the Hobbs Act, which will allow the DOJ to prosecute crimes in California that would normally be handled by the state government.

Color Revolution Update

In November 2024 – seven months ago, and just three days after Trump’s election – I recorded a presentation entitled “The Coming Color Revolution: 2025-2028,” predicting that anti-ICE violence would be the cornerstone of the anti-Trump revolutionary movement. I write this without hyperbole: this looks like the beginning of a Color Revolution against the Trump administration, which I’ve been following and describing since last year.

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